Kelli Susemihl

Kelli Susemihl is a junior at the University of South Dakota and is a Political Science, Media & Journalism and History triple major. She is from Le Mars, Iowa.

Opinion

November 5th, 2019234 The Weasley family cracks, gingers have no souls and National Kick a Ginger Day. Gingers have heard it all before. But Monday was National Redhead Day, a day for all the carrot tops of the world to revel in the uniqueness of their hair’s hue. Red hair is a rare trait caused by a recessive gene that often skips generations. Less than...
Opinion

October 22nd, 201938 The past week has been a doozy; tests and papers piling up one after the other, and professors seem to schedule every major assignment to be turned in on the same day. Add in the pressures of relationships in your personal life, a job and extracurriculars, and you’ve got yourself a recipe for a stress sandwich.  I’m with you. Some...
Opinion

September 24th, 201987 Dear obnoxious in-class snifflers,  I never thought I’d say this – but can you just stop breathing? I get it; the whole campus is sick, including me, but I can’t imagine how sitting in class forcing oxygen through your nose mucus is helping anything. What’s even worse is when I can tell you don’t actually have to sniffle,...
Opinion

September 17th, 2019534 “I can’t wait to get the heck out of here.” When you live in the Midwest, this statement is commonplace when talking about future plans. I, however, don’t believe living in the Midwest is all that bad.  As a native Iowan, I have lived in the Midwest my entire life. However, I have also done my fair share of traveling;...
Opinion

September 17th, 2019159 Dear people who huddle by MUC Dining waiting for it to open, Nothing irritates me more on a busy Monday morning than not being able to walk through the MUC from my 10 o’clock class to my 11 o’clock class because you are all huddled around the gates of MUC Dining like moths to light waiting for them to open. I’m sick of elbowing my...
Verve

September 17th, 2019454 A planned arson, an ordinary fire that went horribly wrong and a building that refuses to give up. We know USD is lit, but turns out, the history of its buildings is too.  In its 157 years of existence, USD has had three major fires, according to Michael Seminara, an archivist at the Archives and Special Collections in the I.D. Weeks...
Opinion

September 8th, 2019408 Dear VSCO girls and Hydroflask owners, If you aggressively screw the lid off and on your Hydroflasksksksk one more time in the middle of class, I might pop my own lid. I promise you do not need to take a tiny sip of whatever strange liquid you are concealing every seven seconds, and you definitely do not need to shake the ice repeatedly...
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